[ SECRET POST #2767 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2767 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

Re: Japan cracking down on anime/manga pirating

[othellia]

Pretty much. I spent so much money on manga in high school. Like pretty much all my birthday money, allowances, neighborhood babysitting gigs, whatever went towards it. Looking back, it was such a waste, it almost makes me cry. And then when I went to college, I didn't have the space for all that, I ended up giving most of it away to friends and donation. I kept my Azumanga Daioh and Rurouni Kenshin stuff and that was it.

$1500-$2000 worth of manga. Gone like that.

Regardless of how much I still love the medium, I am never dishing money out like that again.

Publishers really just need to take all the effort they're putting towards combatting piracy and put it towards making a subscription service for manga like Netflix and Crunchyroll. Assuming it was priced reasonably around $10 a month, I'd sign up for that in a heart beat.

ETA: And don't get me started on series that last for 40+ volumes or series that go, go, and go... until the author takes a indefinite hiatus. God, I remember how much some of my friends used to love DN Angel and x1999. I don't even know if the Western world really has an equivalent to how easily some authors can drop a story outside fanfic WIPs.

Re: Japan cracking down on anime/manga pirating

[ariakas]

Ugh, you don't need to tell me, x1999 was my One True Fandom for years, and I was in denial for so, so long about them never finishing it.

Re: Japan cracking down on anime/manga pirating

[othellia]

I was lucky since I never got into it like some of their other works. One of my friends in particular though... when Tsubasa came out, she got pissed at the inclusion of x1999. She went on a whole tirade about how CLAMP was essentially playing their fandom and acting like they were providing some great fanservice when they could just, you know, go back and actually finish the damn series.

I couldn't blame her.